The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-25
TIE CoMMERCE or UrAH.

THE COMMERCE OF UTAH.
| take great pleasure in reporting
that the commercial affairs of this Ter
Ri orr are in prosperous condition. We
have not had BOOM" but there has
undoubtedly beer o steady develop
ment of most of our material resources
sufficient to arouse a hopeful feeling
throughout Utah and to give promise
of an era of still more rapid growth
from now on. 1t would be difficult
to q gn any one special reason for this
improved condition. | feel that it lies
ID the happy combination of number
of reasons all tending in the same di-
rection. The mines have continued to
WELD up their hidden treasures, and the
efforts of the husbandman; the cattle
have done we'll on the range, and our
sheep have brought us more than the
usual quantity Of wool; and while thus
Provi1en has responded to human
eff Jrt, there has also been a change in
the sentiments OF the people as between
each other, a change leading to better
appreciation of the motives and the
acts of their fellow meu--a drawing
together, in matters of common veal.
of those who have hitherto been at
cross purposes. While there will con-
tinue to be directions in which the
diversified classes of this Territory will
PROBABLY disagree as long as either
party maintains it's integral existence,
all seem to have had the one broad
truth dawn upon them, that it is i'm
possible to maintain commercial har-
mony and to give each other support
in material progress without in some
way compromising their differences of
opinion on other subjects.
Under this improved state of affairs,
which has sprung into being only in the
last few months q new impetus has
been given to all our commercial enter
prisea, and q feeling of hope generally
prevails. Failures in business are rare,
prices are maintained, the working
classes are fully employed, real estate
is in demand, business blocks and
handsome residences are being erected,
chambers of commerce are being or =
ganized in the principal cities, aud g
general determination is manifest t
push the development of our wonderful
esources to the utmost. But the
growth is not confined to our larger
cities, though there the evidence is
more marked it is general through ut
the Territory. In the small towns a !
villages q sense of thrift is disceTned IN
the increased comforts of the people,
their freedom from indebtedness, the
air of prosperity that rervadess ther
homes, their barn-yards, and their
grain-bins. All this ID very gratifying
to every resident, and the attention of
the people of the. East is being turned
this way with new and helpfuliaterest
vastly different TO that with which our
Territoryh has been viewed in the past.
1t is difficult forsany one here TO make
a close estimate of the commercial
activities of Utah, because we have no
bureau of statistics of any kind, but
have been able to figure up the traffic
of the Territory as high as $f29O00 600
for the year. which include 9 smerchan-
d sing, tanning. man ufaet1rinR, and e
Horticultural and stock interests. What
the banking railroad. and such traffio
would amount to, | DO not attempt to
estimate, out these will give an idea that
our commercial concerns are by no
means insignificant. In the matter
that follows, l have thought fit to dwell
at some length on those products for
which We have a wide reputation.
Though the facts have been gathered
with much pains. | must admit that the
figures given in many instances are
only estimates, carefully made and
subjected to. every test within my
reach
1t affords me pleasure to acknowi-
edge my Indebtedness to Messrs. " d.
H. and II. IL. a. Culmer, of this city,
for the careful collection and prepare
ton of the information herein given.
Utah seems to me to present most
, inviting field to the capitalist DESTROYS
OF finding profitable investments, to the
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